The Malay Archipelago, Volume 2 _ The Land - Alfred Russel Wallace

beetles of the family Buprestidae of six different species, one of which was new to me. I then reached a path ...

the great red parrot (Eclectus grandis), found in most of the Moluccas, a crow, and a Megapodius, or m ...

china, and produce a spark, which they catch in some kind of tinder. On the evening of October ...

CHAPTER XXIV. BATCHIAN. (OCTOBER 1858 To APRIL 1859.) I LANDED opposite the house kept for the use of th ...

boards which I had brought with me, fixed under the window. Two bamboo chairs, an easy ...

interesting road brought me to the mining establishment. This is situated in a large open space, at a s ...

British Museum, Semioptera Wallacei, or "Wallace's Standard wing." A few days later I obtained an exceeding ...

words and idioms. The third race consists of the Galela men from the north of Gilolo, a singular people, w ...

opportunity to roam about and commit robberies. The next day I received my money, and secured it ...

of the inhabitants. These people are very fond of music and dancing, and it would astonish a European t ...

Moluccas, and with the Portuguese of Malacca. The reverse is the case in South America, where the mixtu ...

capture determined me to stay on till I obtained a good series of the new butterfly, which I hav ...

The most interesting birds I obtained here, were the beautiful blue kingfisher, Todiramphus diops; the fine ...

use. It was situated on the bank of the river, and surrounded by a forest of fruit trees, among which we ...

does more in a mouth than he could possibly do by a year's search in the depths of the undisturbed f ...

branch a tuft of immense sword-shaped leaves, six or eight inches wide, and as many feet long. Others h ...

walked out to explore, and on the skirts of the forest captured a few interesting insects. Afterwards, I found ...

such extreme beauty or singularity, as to vie with, or even surpass, anything that even South America ...

no intervening land. After the island had been settled a year, and traversed in every direction, his son paid ...

days' excursion, which was a very agreeable one, and enabled me to sea a good deal of the island. I had ...